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Charlie's Angels (2000)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore Director: McG
Charlie's Angels
(DVD) - They're beautiful, they're brilliant and they work for Charlie. This is a sexy, high-octane update of the popular hit show, Natalie (Cameron Diaz), Dylan (Drew
Barrymore) and Alex (Lucy Liu), alongside faithful lieutenant Bosley (Bill Murray), must foil an elaborate murder-revenge plot that could not only destroy individual privacy and corporate security worldwide, but spell the end of Charlie and his Angels.
Charlie's Angels
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For every TV-into-movie success like The Fugitive, there are dozens of uninspired films like The Mod Squad.
Happily -- and surprisingly -- this breezy update of the seminal '70s jiggle show falls into the first category, with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore (who also produced), and Lucy Liu starring as the hair-tossing, fashion-setting, kung fu-fighting trio employed by the mysterious Charlie (voiced by the original Charlie, John Forsythe).
When a high-tech programmer (Sam Rockwell) is kidnapped, the angels seek out the suspects, with the daffy Bosley (Bill Murray in a casting coup) in tow.
A happy, cornball popcorn flick, Charlie's Angels is played for laughs with plenty of ribbing references to the old TV show as well as modern caper films like Mission: Impossible.
McG, a music video director making his feature film debut (usually a death warrant for a movie's integrity), infuses the film with plenty of Matrix-style combat pyrotechnics, and the result is the first successful all-American Hong Kong-style action flick.
Plenty of movies boast a New Age feminism that has their stars touting their sexuality while being their own women, but unlike something as obnoxious as Coyote Ugly, Angels succeeds with a positive spin on Girl Power for the new millennium (Diaz especially sizzles in her role of crack super agent/airhead blonde).
From the send-up of the TV show's credit sequence to the outtakes over the end credits, Charlie's Angels is a delight.
Charlie's Angels
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Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only) PLEASE NOTE: Some Region 1 DVDs may contain Regional Coding Enhancement
(RCE). Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players. For more information on
RCE, click here.
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Rated:
Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios
DVD Features:
- Theatrical trailer(s)
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Director and Cinematographer Commentary
Featurettes:
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Fashion Featurette
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Set Design Featurette
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Martial Arts and Stunts Featurette
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Special Effects Featurette
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Director McG Featurette
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Wired Angels - Special Effects Deconstruction
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Deleted and Extended Scenes
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Outtakes and Bloopers
Music Videos by Destiny's Child and Apollo Four Forty
Widescreen anamorphic format
Other Formats: VHS, VHS subtitled in Spanish
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